Ten Kotlin Features To Boost Android Development

A while ago, Tomasz introduced Kotlin development on Android. To remind you: Kotlin is a new programming language developed by Jetbrains, the company behind one of the most popular Java IDEs, IntelliJ IDEA. Like Java, Kotlin is a general-purpose language. Since it complies to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) bytecode, it can be used side-by-side with Java, and it doesn’t come with a performance overhead. In this article, I will cover the top ten useful features to boost your Android development.

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